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11 May 2021
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Story Rulanzen Martin
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Prof Walter D Mignolo from Duke University will be the speaker at this year’s Africa Day Memorial Lecture.
The Africa Day Memorial Lecture is an important event for the University of the Free State (UFS) and the
Centre for Gender and Africa Studies. This year’s lecture will be presented virtually by
Prof Walter D Mignolo and will focus on
The beauty
of the sovereign people: Jean Casimir and the decolonial history of Haiti. The discussant will be Prof Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni.
Africa Day is celebrated annually on 25 May under a different theme. The theme for Africa Month 2021 as declared by the
African Union is:
The AU Year of the Arts, Culture and Heritage: Levers for Building the Africa We Want.
Follow discussions about Africa Month on social media:
#UFSAfricaMonth | #AfricaMonth| #OneAfrica
About the speaker:
Prof Mignolo is a professor of Romance Studies and professor of Literature. He is the Director of the Centre for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University in the United States of America. He was an honorary research associate in the Centre for Indian Studies in South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Read more about Prof Mignolo here
Kovsie-Alumni Trust awards bursaries to the top matriculants
2006-05-13
Every year, the Kovsie-Alumni Trust of the University of the Free State (UFS) awards bursaries to the top matriculants from each province who study at the UFS. The top matriculants in the Free State and Northern Cape are studying at the UFS this year.
At the awarding of the bursaries were from the left Ms Liné Morrison (top matriculant in the Free State in 2005), Ms Frances Hoexter (Chairperson of the Kovsie-Alumni Trust) and Ms Liesl-Barbara Muller (top matriculant in the Northern Cape in 2005). Me Morrison matriculated from the Secondary School Witteberg in Bethlehem and studies B Sc (Physiotherapy). Ms Muller is a MB Ch B student who matriculated from the Secondary School Diamantveld in Kimberley.